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Hello … bonjour! Hope you’re having a good summer or winter, depending where you are … and a happy weekend. I have three cards to share today … and I’m delighted to be blogging them before the deadlines pass on challenges I’d like to link up with! First into the spotlight, a fresh card that turned out to be especially QACAS (quick and clean and simple in Darnellese) …

I won a GC from Altenew recently via Therese at Lost in Paper (thanks, Therese!) … and this one layer card was made with one of the sets I got with it. I used the rock and roll technique to stamp the flower heads in two blues … it added a little dimension and some extra definition to the edges. The flower centres were done in the darker of the two blues and I added the grey leaves … before finishing with the shiny heat embossed sentiment and a touch of stickles in the middle of each bloom. Forget me nots? They look a bit like that to my eyes!

A watercoloured rainbow panel with a Poppy Stamps bloom die cut from it and inset into it, adhered flat to a white mat with a WPlus9 sentiment stamped along the bottom edge. I scored lines onto the card base before mounting the finished panel onto it on craft foam and adding a couple of tiny black pearls to the flower centres.

Another one layer card, this time stamp layered with the second set I got with my Altenew GC. The sentiment is from Winnie and Walter and the supplementary greeting is from Simon Says Stamp. I added some black gel pen dots to the flower centres and a fine black line along the crease edge to tie them in to the black greeting.

These florals are going to be blooming at (badges are at the bottom of the post) …

Fusion – Inspiration (below) … all those lovely colours at that summer picnic

That’s it for me … I’ll be back on Thursday with a little something for the new challenge starting then at Time Out. In the meantime, thanks so much for coming by, your visits and comments are always a joy! Anita 🙂

Hello … bonjour! It’s time to get excited all over again … our next Twofer Card Challenge starts right now! Thanks to your ingenuity and creativity, our first gallery was chock full of fabulous cards showcasing two different designs … for two different occasions … using the same stamps and/or dies. How about stretching those creative muscles again this month? This time round, our word prompt is … Here’s where I went with my Twofer …

The thing that these two CAS cards have in common is the Concord & 9th die cut heart … all the other elements are distinctly different. Here’s a closer look at each one …

Here, I made the hearts into delicate flowers … using just the outline cuts turned upside down and adhered along the centre line to a kraft card base. They’re folded up a little to add interest and dimension. The stems are made from very slender strips of cardstock, attached flat to the base. I white heat embossed a birthday sentiment from Winnie & Walter … and added a drift of enamel accent dots to mimic seed heads floating in a summer breeze.

My Twofer …

This time I used a series of whole hearts in my design. They were cut from a piece of card that had been rainbow watercoloured with Distress Inks … and were adhered flat to a panel of black cardstock in a graphic pattern. The Sending Hugs sentiment was made up of two dies from SSS and I added a Lucy’s Little Gem to each heart (to match the background colour). The panel was trimmed down and popped up on craft foam onto a white card base … the white border ties the white sentiment into the design.

Voilà … my two distinctly different designs … for two distinctly different occasions … using the same die!

So … will you let your creative imagination run wild with ‘Hearts’? We’d love to see your two distinctly different cards … for two distinctly different occasions … using the same stamps/dies … in our gallery! All the information you need, including timescales, guidelines, rules and FAQs, along with loads of fantastic inspiration from the wonderful DT … is over at the Twofer blog … it’s just a click away! Hope you can join us!

Hello … bonjour! Hope your weekend has been a great one … and that you’ve had chance to spend some of it creating. I had a bit of time to play … and have four cards to share … first up, something rather crisp and clean …

A panel stamped with Papertrey‘s Doodlie-Do flowers and leaves and coloured with Promarkers … all in various grey tones. The sentiment is also from Papertrey, the happy was embossed, the birthday was die cut twice and stacked. I might add some bling or shine to the panel … it seems a little naked as is!

This is a panel from my Lake House stash (thanks to Ardyth I think) … masked/stamped with the Mondo Peony from Essentials By Ellen. I watercoloured it with my Zigs, stamped a sentiment from Avery Elle, did a little Black Soot DI splattering, scattered on some Lucy’s Little Jewels and adhered it flat to a card base.

Concord & 9th blooms, white heat embossed and watercoloured with Zigs, in soft summery shades, with a sentiment from Recollections (a gift from the lovely Barb when we met last year during her visit to France).

Finally this evening, you’ve probably seen the Simply Graphic die delights that Maria has been showcasing … if not, go, right now … I’ll wait till you get back … they’re here, here and here. Told ya … now, wasn’t that worth the detour? So, I happened to mention in a comment that I share Maria’s love of this stylish company … and how the SG page in my wish book includes practically the whole line … and she promptly sent me a whole selection of delicious cuts. Merci mille fois, encore, Maria! This is the second card I’ve made with them (you’ll notice it has some similarities to one of those you’ve just seen over at Maria’s place) … not posted the first yet …

A panel of smooshed-with-Zigs watercolour paper, trimmed to size, acting as a bright backdrop for those swoonable SG abstract flowers. The sentiment is from Winnie & Walter (I used a white gel pen for the ‘i’ as it fell perfectly over the stem) … and the frame is another of the goodies from my SG envelope (slightly reduced in size).

This little pretty is joining in the fun at (all the badges are at the bottom) …

Hello … bonjour! I’m celebrating today with one of the sweetest souls in blogland … I know you’ll know her from her delicious blog, Happy Dance … and if you don’t, you really need to! Happy, happy, happiest birthday, Bev, ma chère amie … may your day be filled with joy, love and laughter … and may your year to come be blessed with the closeness of family, the warmth of friends, and the delights of new discoveries! I made this for you, which might or might not have already arrived … if it’s not already with you, it’s pretty close …

A white card panel, stamped with the most delicious delicate leaf sprig from Concord & 9th‘s Wildflower set (NBUS!). It was coloured with Distress Ink and Zigs and the panel was trimmed down so that a couple of the leaves just peek out over the top edge. The sentiment (SSS) has the die cut word ombré sponged and stacked on craft foam, and the supplementary black strips white heat embossed and popped up on foam tape. I sponged a slender black frame onto the card base, adhered the finished panel over it with craft foam, and added some clear sequins with enamel accent centres to finish off.

ETA … was going to link to the new Where Creativity Meets C9 challenge, but realised just in time that there’s a limit on the number of additional challenges … oops!

Before I go, there’s just one more thing to do. As you may know, Bev throws the most amazing virtual birthday parties … but as it’s her special day, she won’t be doing that for herself. So, here’s a little surprise get together for her … the table’s set … the champagne’s poured …

the food’s all ready … and of course, there’s a yummy birthday cake … help yourself!

I never thought last year’s gift could be topped, Bev … THE craft island … which for those of you who never saw it looks like this …

however, I did find something to complement it, just in case you feel like a change of crafting scenery! Joyeux Anniversaire, sweet friend … enjoy every moment!

It’s lovely of all of you to be here for Bev‘s party … it makes the celebration so much fun … and you can always pop over to Happy Dance if you’d like to wish her a happy birthday in person … which I’m sure you would!

Thanks so much for coming by, your visits and comments are always a joy! Anita🙂

Hello! I’m popping by with a gentle reminder that there’s still plenty of time to play along with us at our latest Time Out challenge, where we’re inspired by a cool and fun ‘Home Sweet Home’ photo, just a little further down. Here’s my take …

and here’s the cool, graphic and slightly spooky inspiration …

This time round, my focus was on the colour scheme, the shine on those stands and the graphic shapes. I stamped and heat embossed the Papertrey sketched banner direct on the card base and gradient sponged Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink over it. The little ‘hello’ is from SSS, stamped on a Papertrey scalloped circle, covered with Wink of Stella and coated with lashings of Glossy Accents … it’s mounted on a black, clear heat embossed circle from MFT. I popped the little badge up on foam tape over the banner and added some gem embellished sequins as a finishing touch.

Where does your imagination take you when you look at this photo … colours, patterns, texture, shine … or anything else you see! Where ever it goes, why not make a card and play along with us … we’d love to see you in the gallery! There’s heaps of inspiration over at the Time Out blog, from our talented Guest Designer TaeEun (Rainbow In November) and from our wonderful DT. Hope to see you there!

I’m joining in the fun at some other spooky and non spooky inspired challenges …

I’ll be back later with another Surprise Party Guest post for Seize the Birthday … hope you’ll come by for that! In the meantime though, thanks so much for your visits and comments, they’re always a joy! Anita 🙂

You may remember I made a whole four cards at the Lake House with the BABES … you’ve seen three … and I’ve been holding onto this last one, waiting for exactly the right moment. That moment has arrived …

These Papertrey Circle Scribbles (cut with Kim‘s dies … thanks, my friend!) put me in mind of a kind of funky modern take on snowballs (or even snowflakes) … especially after they’d been embossed with Ranger Platinum EP to make them all dimensional. Once I’d arranged them on the card front, they were adhered into place and the overhanging edges were trimmed off. Then I deliberated (goodness, we deliberated!) about where to put the sentiment. Some time later, I found this sweet little stamp in the collective stash (sorry, BABES, don’t know whose it was!) and it fitted perfectly into the middle of the medium sized snowball … job done … one snowy, shimmery, silvery, Christmas card!

It’s been a bit quiet here on the old blog for a while … life’s been a bit over-full dealing with the after effects of a lightning strike on the house last Saturday. Now, we have most services back … internet (obviously!), phone, power and hot water (blissful!) … and hope the rest (plus the replacement of our frazzled electrical goods) will be sorted quickly. Keeping things in perspective, it is only ‘stuff’ … we’re blessed it wasn’t us that got frazzled! Anyway, last night, after a few evenings of lovely visits round the blogosphere, I was (almost) not behind with visiting everyone, so I sat down in my craft corner, breathed a little, and made this …

I die cut the Paper Smooches ‘thanks’, topped it with Stickles and added a coat of Glossy Accents (very sparkly!). The Avery Elle brush strokes were stamped onto a white panel and the flowers and leaves (also AE) were stamped onto separate card. I trimmed out the flowers and leaves, adhered them to the white panel on different height foam dots, and added tiny pearls to the flower centres. The posy took a bit of arranging … which was fine because by the time I’d at last decided on a final look, the glittery thanks was dry, so I added that over the brush strokes and popped the finished white panel onto a card base with foam tape.

I’m joining in with …

CASology – Stripe (the brush strokes and have a close look at those blooms!)

Fusion – Beach House (colours from the table in the gorgeous inspiration photo … flowers, cupcakes, melons … and the shimmer from the light you can just see hanging above it.)

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Hello ... Bonjour! You're very welcome to My Papercraft World, a small space in blogland for sharing my enthusiasm for card making. Feel free to have a browse around ... and if you find something that inspires, amuses or interests you, leave me a comment to let me know. If you let me have your blog address, I can return the compliment ... and get to be inspired, amused and interested chez toi too! Anita :)